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Managing Programs: are you in a horror movie?

by PM4NGOs | Oct 17, 2015 | Program Management, Project Management

A program is a group of related projects and activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually (PMDPro). In other words, the whole (the benefit of the program) is greater than the sum of its parts (the...

How does a DPro Project look like?

by PM4NGOs | Sep 9, 2015 | Project Management

How does a PMDPro Project look like? This question comes up in each training course, meeting, or even informal conversation about project management in the development. Where can I find a PMDPro template? What is the checklist to attend all PMD requirements? Well, it...

#NoEstimates – De-Mystified

by PM4NGOs | Aug 14, 2015 | Project Management

INTRODUCTION For some time now within the software development community on Twitter, and by extension, some in the project management community, there has been an ongoing discussion surrounding a concept called No Estimates. Actually, the discussion (sometimes heated)...

The Triple Constraints are NOT Success Criteria

by PM4NGOs | Jul 25, 2015 | Project Management

What defines a project as a success? For a lot of Project Managers, the answer to this question (unfortunately), is “on-time, on-budget, on-scope”. These are known as the Triple Constraints, or the Iron Triangle, and are the Holy Grail for Project Managers. Hit these...

Project DPro in the field – Changing the world one project at a time

by PM4NGOs | Jul 11, 2015 | Case Studies, Project Management

PMD Pro in action in Mudzi, Zimbabwe Mudzi is a district of Mashonaland in the far eastern part of Zimbabwe. World Vision International (http://www.wvi.org/zimbabwe) runs an Area Development Programme in Mudzi and the programme has adopted the use of PMD Pro and its...

Estimate or Budget?

by PM4NGOs | Jul 4, 2015 | Project Management

Are you working from an Estimate, or a Budget? These two get confused quite a bit. They seem to be the same, and one usually derives from the other, but they’re not the same. An estimate is an approximation of what your project (or piece of it) will cost. The budget...